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> Bill W Smith Jr (bill@srisoft.comB) wrote:
> : I need to hear from anyone out there who is running FPU 2.6, especially
> : if you are running it with 10+ users.
> 
> No I don't have the chance to use FoxProUnix 2.6 Yet but I am waiting
> for the delivery.
> 
> And that is what I was expecting. I mean.
> 
> Another Dirty JOB by Microsoft with pretty outlook and a crippled inside.
> 
> Amjad Alvi.
> brains@singnet.com.sg

We have taken delivery of FPU 2.6 and installed it and have started to try and 
get terminals sorted out etc.  Although not running 10+ sessions yet our 
eventual aim would be to switch our whole Foxbase application to FPU.  This is 
used by 40+ users most of whom use more than 3 Foxbase sessions at a time ie 
that is about 120+ concurrent users of Foxbase/Foxpro.

The terminal emulation is pretty grubby from what I casn see but we may be able 
to cure some of the problems (always the optimist).  From other peoples notes 
it appears that terminal speeds above 9600 although they work are no faster 
than 9600.

I would think that you could forget about developing under UNIX, do it in DOS 
on a PC and transfer it over.

I am very concerned about the memory usage which is twice that of Foxbase.  For 
this the programme actually works slower.

On the plus the Foxbase programmes just went over without any problem and 
databases worked without reindexing or anything.  The code recompiled 
without a hitch and that was about 60,000 lines of code.  The look of the 
terminals is also better in Foxpro than Foxbase.

We are just starting but would like to keep up contact with others to gain 
other views etc.

Lastly a plug for users outside of US.  I bought my package from UNIDIRECT who 
were great to deal with.  We had a hitch with one disk not being able to be 
read.  Microsoft were absolutely useless to deal with (NZ and US) but UNIDIRECT 
sorted it all out.

Peter Scott
peter@h_yellow.co.nz